Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers and artists who identify as women.

About Yellow arrow Journal

Submissions for Yellow Arrow Journal’s fall 2024 issue (Vol. IX, No. 2) on kitalo are CLOSED. Thank you to all who submitted and shared. For more information on how to submit to the next (spring 2025) issue, visit our submissions page.

The overarching concept of kitalo, griefulness, explores the intertwining of grief and gratitude. You can hear from the guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal Vol. IX, No. 2, Tramaine Suubi, and the focus of the next issue at yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/fullness-grief-guest-editor-yaj-ix-02-suubi.

The Yellow Arrow Journal issue ELEVATE, Vol. IX, No. 1 (spring 2024) is available as a paperback and a PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. You can also find ELEVATE through most online distributors and at some bookstores near you. Learn more about the issue here and find the reading, Let’s Go Higher: A reading from ELEVATE on the Yellow Arrow YouTube channel.

Support the journal by purchasing a bundle of the 2024 (Vol. IX) issues at a discounted price, for yourself, for your office, or as a gift. Bundles are also available for the 2022 (Vol. VII) and 2023 (Vol. VIII) issues. Learn more about our bundles at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-bundle.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. For an editorial statement from our Editor-in-Chief, see below.

Meet the Guest Editors

Editorial statement

At Yellow Arrow Publishing, we pride ourselves on nontraditional publishing methods that align with our nontraditional publishing company. We seek to uplift underrepresented voices and to allow women-identifying writers to exist and be heard exactly as they are.

We believe that publishing is a vehicle for storytelling and that each storyteller should have the freedom to tell the truest version of their story. This means that we don’t focus on common style guides and norms and that we don’t change our authors’ voices into something they are not.

While we provide a basic copyedit of each journal issue, manuscript, and chapbook that we publish, we prioritize maintaining the unique voice and style of each of our authors. Instead of fixating on grammar perfection (though we will fix errant commas), we focus on the heart of each piece: we want the ideas, themes, and styles of our writers to shine.

We believe that every writer has a story to tell and that every story is worth telling.

We want every writer we publish to come out of the process feeling heard, valued, and needed.

We believe that your story matters. That you matter.

And we want you to be heard.

Kapua Iao, Editor-in-Chief

JOURNAL ISSUES: FROM JOURNEY (VOL. I) TO ELEVATE (VOL. IX, NO. 1)